Surgical bandage-plaster.



No. 797,094. PATEN TED AUG. 15, 1905.

J. BENARIO.

SURGICAL BANDAGE PLASTER. APPLICATION IILEI) mun-14.1904.

JACOB BENARIO, OF FRANKFORT-ON-THEMAIN, GERMANY.

SURGICAL BANDAGE-PLASTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented Aug. 15, 1905.

Application filed June 14, 1904. Serial No. 212,573.

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ACOB BENARIO, doctor of medicine, a subject of the German Emperor, residing and having my post-office address at Savignystrasse 1, Frankfort on the Main, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Surgical Bandage-Plasters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new or improved surgical bandage-plaster.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the plaster, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view.

The disadvantages hitherto associated with the plasters used in medicine and surgery were that the matter or the like discharged by the wound gathering or other ailment is not absorbed by the plasters, but accumulates beneath the latter and causes inflammation and irritation. This is the reason why in surgery these plasters are not used for wounds and the like to such an extent as they otherwise would be, considering the convenience they offer. The improved plaster obviates the said disadvantages.

On a suitable ground or fabric Afor instance, very thin gutta-percha papera thin layer B of ointment, salve, or the like is placed and the gutta-percha paper perforated at several points, as indicated at a. Through these openings the matter or discharge from the wound or other part being treated can freely pass into the absorbent body C, placed over the gutta-percha paper, and by which it is absorbed. Over said absorbent body a layer of fabric, paper, or the like D, having adhesive material 0? on the edges of one face,

is placed, which holds the whole bandage together and serves to attach it to the skin. I may employ for the ointment or salve base a chemical substance which is easily absorbed by the wound for the purpose of allowing the medicaments (antiseptic substances and the like) added to the base to completely act on the wounds and to allow a free egress of the discharge from the wound. Gelatin has proved useful as such abase. I have found that a good bandage-plaster may be made with said gelatin base and protargol.

I claim g The herein-described surgical bandage comprising a strip of perforated material having a medicament applied toone surface thereof,

a body of absorbent material arranged against the unmedicated surface of said strip, and a cover-strip extending over said absorbent body and projecting beyond opposite sides of the medicated strip, the cover-strip having an adhesive coating applied to its inner surface and extending over the sections thereof that project beyond the medicated strip to provide means for holding the bandage in place when in use, said adhesive coating also connecting the medicated strip to the coverstrip to retain the absorbent body in proper position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB BEN ARIO.

Witnesses FRANZ HASSLACHER, ERWIN DIPPEL. 

